Rev.1: 8. I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the ending, saith the Lord, which is, and which was, and which is to come, the Almighty.---Jesus is the Alpha and Omega- the Almighty!
Daniel 11:33. And they that understand among the people shall instruct many: yet they shall fall by the sword, and by flame, by captivity, and by spoil, many days.

During Egypt's presidential elections, Al Ahram reported that "the Muslim Brotherhood
blockaded entire streets, prevented Copts from voting at gunpoint, and
threatened Christian families not to let their children go out and vote"
for the secular candidate.

Meanwhile, under President Obama, the U.S. State Department, in an unprecedented move, purged the sections dealing with religious persecution
from its recently released Country Reports on Human Rights. Likewise,
the Obama administration insists that the Nigerian crisis has nothing to do with religion,
even as Obama offered his hearty blessings to Egypt's Muslim
Brotherhood president, in the midst of allegations of electoral fraud.

Categorized by theme, June's assemblage of Muslim persecution of
Christians around the world includes (but is not limited to) the
following accounts, listed in alphabetical order by country, not
severity.

Church Attacks

Egypt: Because many visitors were in attendance, Muslims
surrounded a Coptic church during Divine Liturgy "demanding that the
visiting Copts leave the church before the completion of prayers, and threatening to burn down the church
if their demand was not met." The priest contacted police asking for
aid only to be told to comply with their demands, "and do not let buses
with visitors to come to the church anymore." Christian worshippers
exited halfway through liturgy to jeers outside. As they drove away,
Muslims hurled stones at their buses. Also, repairs to a Coptic church
that was torched and gutted a year ago by rioting Muslims were woefully inadequate, leaving the congregation with a staggering debt from further necessary repairs.

Indonesia: A Muslim mob of 300 wrecked
a store that was being used for a Sunday church service on the pretext
that it had not obtained "permission to hold Mass." The mob wrecked the
first floor of the store, breaking windows and damaging furniture.
Police stopped them before reaching the third floor, where some 60
Christians had congregated. None of the Muslims were arrested, although
12 Christians were taken into custody for questioning. Separately, in
compliance to calls by Islamic clerics, authorities ordered 20 churches to be torn down,
following the closure of 16 smaller Christian places of worship in the
same district last month. The congregations continue to hold services
inside their sealed-off buildings as other members stand guard outside.

Iran: Authorities ordered the closure of yet another church
in the capital, Tehran, "amid a government campaign to crack down on
the few recognized churches offering Farsi-speaking services," according
to a human rights group. The church originally served Assyrian
background Christian members; however, "due to an increasing number of
Farsi-speaking believers—mostly MBBs [Muslim Background Believers]—it
[the church] has become a cause of concern for the authorities and they
now ordered it to shut down."

Kashmir: A 119-year-old church was torched by Muslims.
The local bishop "said that the Muslim fundamentalists want Christians
to leave the state… He said that the church had filed a case with the
police but had been advised not to 'play up' such incidents." Christian
minorities "are coming under growing threat from Kashmir's Muslim
majority. A Christian human rights group in India said that over 400
Christians have been displaced as a result."

Kazakhstan: Land use regulations are being exploited
"as a means to prevent religious communities and their members
exercising freedom of religion or belief." Most recently, authorities
"forced a Methodist church to 'voluntarily' close and fined the wife of
the Church's Pastor, who further paid for an announcement in newspapers
saying the church was 'liquidating itself,'" simply because "We do not
want more punishment from the authorities."

Nigeria: Islamic militants attacked several churches
during every Sunday of the month with bombs and guns killing dozens of
Christian worshippers, and critically wounding hundreds, including many
children. Growing numbers of Christians "dare not" attend church services anymore, even as reports suggest that some police are intentionally abandoning their watch prior to such attacks.

Sudan: Authorities bulldozed two church buildings
to the ground and confiscated three Catholic schools, as a response to
the secession of South Sudan in July 2011, saying that such buildings
are associated with now unwelcome, largely Christian South Sudanese in
the Islamic-ruled country. Another church building belonging to the Full
Gospel Church was destroyed in the same area two months ago, also on
the claim that it belonged to South Sudanese.

Turkmenistan: An Evangelical church in the Muslim-majority nation was raided by authorities:
"All adult believers at the meeting were questioned about their faith
and all of their Christian literature was confiscated." Their literature
was returned two weeks later.

Apostasy, Blasphemy, Proselytism

Egypt: A Christian student handing out Christian literature in Assuit University "raised the ire of Muslim students,"
resulting in clashes on campus, "amid shouts of sectarian chants,"
leading to many injuries. Likewise, a Salafi leader declared on Egyptian
TV that Muslims have no right "to convert to Christianity."

Iran: Five months after five Christian converts were arrested,
their condition and fate remain unknown. They are accused of "attending
house church services, promoting Christianity, propagating against the
regime and disturbing national security." Being imprisoned for 130 days
without word "is an obvious example of physical and mental abuse of the
detainees…. one of the prison guards openly told one of these Christian
detainees that all these pressures and uncertainties are intended to
make them flee the country after they are released." Also, a young
Iranian woman, who recently converted to Christianity and was an
outspoken activist against the Islamic regime, was found dead, slumped over her car's steering wheel, with a single gunshot wound to her head.

Pakistan: A banned Islamic group filed a blasphemy case against a 25-year-old mentally retarded Christian man.
Muslims had converted him to Islam two years earlier, to use him as a
pretext to annex his Christian village. In the words of a witness:
"These people (Muslims) do not let us live. We are poor but are working
hard to survive. On the night of the incidence a mob of Muslim clerics
gathered [around] our colony to burn us all because of the blasphemy
Ramzan [the retarded man] committed. Everyone was very scared. We all
have small children in our houses and we didn't know what to do. The mob
surrounded our colony and raised a slogan to burn all the houses, they
had torches in their hands and petrol in the cans. We called police and
thank God police arrived just in time.

Saudi Arabia: Thirty-five Ethiopian Christians arrested in December for praying in a private home remain jailed,
even as Saudi officials offer contradicting reasons for their arrest.
Meanwhile, they have been beaten and subjected to interrogations and
strip searches. Saudi Arabia formally bans all religions other than
Islam. However, in 2006, Saudi authorities told the United States that
they would "guarantee and protect the right to private worship for all,
including non-Muslims who gather in homes for religious practice."

Sudan: A Muslim woman divorced her husband, a convert to Christianity,
causing the court automatically to grant her custody of their two sons.
When the father tried to visit his children, his wife threatened to
notify authorities. "They might take the case to a prosecution court,
which might lead to my sentencing to death according to Islamic apostasy
law—but I am ready for this," said the Christian. "I want the world to
know this. What crime have I done? Is it because I became a Christian? I
know if the world is watching, they [Sudanese authorities] will be
afraid to do any harm to me."

United States: Two Christian men in Saint Louis, Missouri received death threats
from Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard, apparently for converting to
Christianity and preaching it. One of the men formerly served in the
Revolutionary Guard and was once even assigned a suicide mission against
Israel, before converting and immigrating to the U.S. "The two men
believe that Islam is a religion that could easily radicalize a Muslim
into a terrorist." Likewise, in Dearborn Michigan, Christian
demonstrators exercising their free speech rights were stoned by Muslims shouting "Allahu Akbar!"

Dhimmitude

[General Abuse, Debasement, and Suppression of Non-Muslims as "Tolerated" Citizens]

Indonesia: "The number of violations of Christians' religious rights
in Indonesia reached 40 in the first five months of the year, nearly
two-thirds the amount of anti-Christian actions in all of last year,"
according to the Jakarta Christian Communication Forum. The Christian
minority in Indonesia faced 64 cases of violations of religious freedom
last year, up from 47 in 2010." Violence against Christians also
increased.

Mali: "Islamists in control of northern Mali are enforcing a strict version of Sharia law that victimizes Christians,
women and other vulnerable groups." The radicals took control of
northern Mali in April after ousting the armed forces of the government.
"All the Christians have left Timbuktu (the main city in north Mali)
because of the Sharia law as well as because of the presence of people
linked with al-Qaeda," said a Christian leader who fled from northern Mali.

Pakistan: Police are siding with the Muslims accused of beating a pregnant Christian woman,
causing her to miscarriage twins, and gang-raping her 13-year-old
Christian niece. "Muslim criminals believe police and courts will give
little credence to the complaints of Christians in the country, which is
nearly 96 percent Muslim," adds the report. The Christian family is
"paying a huge price for being poor … and for being Christian," said the
uncle: "What can we expect from the police when they are not paying
heed even to the court orders? They are distorting facts and have even
gone to the extent of accusing a 13-year-old [raped girl] of committing
adultery with three men." Another Christian politician's ID mistook him
for a Muslim, causing him to insist "on the floor of the Punjab Assembly
that he was born a Christian and appealed to them and the media not to
indulge in propaganda against him that could incite Muslim extremists to kill him."

South Africa: More than 70 students were kicked out
of the Coastal KZN As-Salaam campus dormitories and are currently
homeless, because campus officials tried to make them observe Islam,
including by banning Bibles, which the students resisted. "All we wanted
was to be free to practice our own religions and not be forced to
follow Islam, but now we have been punished by being deprived of safe
accommodation," said one student.

Turkey: Thousands of devout Muslims prayed outside Hagia Sophia—formerly Christendom's greatest cathedral now a museum—shouting, "Allahu Akbar!" and demanding the building be opened as a mosque in honor of the jihadi sultan who conquered Constantinople in the 15th century.

About this Series

Because the persecution of Christians in the Islamic world is on its
way to reaching epidemic proportions, "Muslim Persecution of Christians"
was developed to collate some—by no means all—of the instances of
persecution that surface each month. It serves two purposes:

Intrinsically, to document that which the
mainstream media does not: the habitual, if not chronic, Muslim
persecution of Christians.

Instrumentally, to show that such persecution is not "random," but
systematic and interrelated—that it is rooted in a worldview inspired by
Sharia.

Accordingly, whatever the anecdote of persecution, it typically fits
under a specific theme, including hatred for churches and other
Christian symbols; apostasy and blasphemy laws; sexual abuse of
Christian women; forced conversions to Islam; theft and plunder in lieu
of jizya (tribute); overall expectations for Christians to behave like
cowed "dhimmis" (barely tolerated citizens); and simple violence and
murder. Oftentimes it is a combination thereof.
Because these accounts of persecution span different ethnicities,
languages, and locales—from Morocco in the west, to India in the east,
and throughout the West, wherever there are Muslims—it should be clear
that one thing alone binds them: Islam—whether the strict application of
Islamic Sharia law, or the supremacist culture born of it.

Raymond Ibrahimis a Shillman Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center and an Associate Fellow at the Middle East Forum.

The translators of the original King James Version of
the Bible (1611) gave us the word PALE for the fourth horse. Let's look at how
they came up with that. In the GREEK text, the word "chloros" is present.
"Chloros" means GREEN. It is the same as seen in the world
chlorophyll, which is the green color of plants. Obviously, the
translators could not imagine a green horse, so provided the word
"pale" instead. The Old Testament reference to the fourth horse in
the KJV said, "grizzled and bay." However, neither of those words
appear in the ancient Hebrew. The best interpretation is
"strong-colored" horse.

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